Forge Approximately 5 Metres North of Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Forge, offices.
Forge Approximately 5 Metres North of Forge House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-truss-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Forge, offices
- Address
- Forge Approximately 5 Metres North of Forge House, TN3 0JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 543 393
- Coordinates
- 51.13219, 0.20476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former forge located approximately 5 meters north of Forge House in Speldhurst, Langton Green. It dates from the early to mid 19th century and was converted to offices around 1980. The structure is constructed from coursed blocks of sandstone ashlar, with some brick at the rear, and features a peg-tile roof.
The forge is a low building oriented on a rough east-west axis, with its west gable end facing The Green and its main facade directed south towards Forge House. It has a three-room plan, although it is unclear if any of the internal crosswalls are original from the 19th century. The building is single-storey.
The exterior displays an irregular front with three windows and three doorways, all of which occupy original openings, except for the right end window that blocks another original doorway. The windows and part-glazed doors are all from the 20th century. The gable-ended roof includes a couple of 20th-century skylights. The front gable is made of stone ashlar and features shaped kneelers and coping, along with a ventilator slit that has a chamfered surround.
Inside, the building has plain carpentry details. This former forge is a well-constructed stone building that contributes to an attractive and varied group of buildings along the east side of The Green.
Local climate
Forge Approximately 5 Metres North of Forge House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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